Job description

The Erasmus Centre for Study and Career Success makes use of an intervention programme that has shown to be been extremely successful in raising students’ academic performance and retention rate. The goal is to help as many students as possible to reach their full potential and to reduce gender and ethnicity inequality in universities, universities of applied sciences, and secondary education. The intervention project had been in effect at RSM since 2011 and is currently being rolled out at other faculties, universities and high schools.

To that end, the Centre is looking for a project manager.

As a project manager you will be responsible for initiating, implementing, and monitoring the progress of multidisciplinary projects that organize the implementation of our intervention projects in organizations such as Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Amsterdam. You are also responsible for defining the implementation projects, organising the projects and will co-ordinate the internal organisation of the Centre, as well as third parties and the employees working at the projects to realise the project’s goals within the boundaries of costs, quality and organisation and communication.  You will communicate about the progress of the projects with the director of the Centre.

Your main tasks:

• Keeping an overview of the projects and monitoring progress

• Guiding and supporting project employees (such as project co-ordinator, student assistants)

• Planning and structuring tasks

• Maintaining contact with participating or interested parties

• Managing time

• Managing the IT aspects of the project

• Acquiring new projects

• Being the linchpin within the team

• Advising and supporting the team with analyses or theories

Required qualifications:

• Higher professional education (equivalent to a master degree)

• Proven experience with project management

• Entrepreneurial spirit, ambition to grow the project

• Excellent written and spoken English and Dutch for internal and external communications (C1)

• Affinity with academics and the academic world

• Leadership skills, decisiveness, people-oriented

• Appreciation for academic research linked to real-world problems.

• Desire to create an impact on the academic community and society as a whole.

• Experience with SPSS, R or STATA is preferred

Employment conditions:

The conditions of employment correspond with the collective labour agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU). We offer a 0.8 FTE contract, initially for one year.

Salary is subject to training and experience and may vary from a minimum of € 3,475 gross per month up to a maximum of € 4,757 gross per month (scale 11 CAO NU), based on a full-time contract of 38 hours.

Erasmus University has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8 per cent, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3 per cent, and a generous number of vacation days.